Course

Setting the Path to Online Communities of Learning

Introducing the concept of online learning communities and ideas for practical activities that can be incorporated at the start of a course or programme.

This course has been developed with Dr Konstantina Martzoukou from Robert Gordon University, UK and includes short videos, activities and discussion prompts. When completed you will:

  • Have explored the concept of creating communities of learning and the key underpinning principles.
  • Understand the impact that effective online communities can have on students’ learning experience and academic success.
  • Know what you need to consider at an institutional level, course / discipline level and a peer level in creating strategies that can be used in the development of online communities of learning.

What’s InSIDE

  • 20 minutes
  • 7 Lessons
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